Analogue’s Pocket portable console delayed for a third time, now till December

The Analogue Pocket has been delayed one more time. The $199 handheld console can play Sport Boy, Sport Equipment, Neo Geo Pocket Color and Atari Lynx games. It changed into as soon as most lately supposed to liberate sooner or later subsequent month, but has slipped to the tip of the twelve months. Pre-orders will ship “at the most modern” in December, in step with an announcement Analogue posted on Friday.

As with every old delays, the corporate is blaming this most modern one on the coronavirus pandemic and associated supply chain points. “Unfortunately, attributable to new Covid restrictions with our assembly companions, their capacity to raise within our agreed timeframe has been affected,” Analogue stated. “This has created a domino elevate out of delays previous our defend watch over in what would otherwise be a seamless process.”

Analogue is providing fleshy refunds to anybody who pre-ordered the machine and doesn’t cling to again till December. In the an identical announcement, the corporate stated it hopes to cling palms-ons and opinions published sooner than the console comes out later this twelve months. “All of us know the draw frustrating that is,” the corporate stated. “It’s very frustrating for us, too.”